Book ID: 92318
Steiner, Roland, Gabriel Hermann and Josef Settele
Ökologie einer aussterbenden Population des Segelfalters Iphiclides podalirius (Linnaeus, 1758) / ecology of an Almost Extinct Population of the Scarce Swallowtail Iphiclides podalirius (Linnaeus, 1758). Publ. 2007. Inverte- brate Ecology and Conservation Monographs, Volume 1). Col. illustr. 172 p. gr8vo. Paper bd.- Bilingual (German and English).
Presents the results of a study on a formerly large metapopulation ofthe Scarce Swallowtail in South-Western Germany. Habitat preferences ofeggs and larval stages are quantified and the general decline andfinally the extinction is thoroughly documented. It is a typical example of the effects of insufficient conservation measures, whichmainly resulted from wrong prioritisation and from ignoring availableknowledge.